Wow!  What a weekend in Atlanta for the Hinman Dental Meeting!  We didn’t even have any warning and of course we were staying in the tallest hotel in town”The Westin”.   It sounded like hail hitting the windows and the building started swaying, then the windows started breaking!!  Natalie and Tasha were looking out one of their hotel windows and the other window blew in on them!  Talk about luck!  And we don’t believe in luck, someone was watching out for us.  We had tried to get to the top of the hotel in their revolving restauraunt and the elevator wasn’t stopping on our floor!  Thank God, because it wasn’t 15 minutes later when the tornado hit!  I wouldn’t have wanted to be on the 80th floor! 

We also felt so blessed when we finally got into the convention center on Tuesday and so many booths were ruined!  Ours was fine, absolutely untouched!  But, only 15 feet away was a hole in the wall that was missing!!!   In the picture, thats not a window! 

It was dissappointing that we couldn’t finish the show since we’d never been there and we had so much interest!  In fact, Saturday morning we walked to McD’s and standing in line we sold a Dental R.A.T. to an office that had wanted to come back Saturday to buy:)  That made us smile on such a dreary day!! 

I did get to see a great side of Georgia too.  My friend Penny let me stay with her till I could get back into the convention center.  It was a beautiful weekend (70 degrees) and I felt like I had a mini vacation with a great friend out on her lake:)

I hope that if you were there that you faired well also!  It sure makes you thankful to be alive!! 

So it is the Chinese Year of the Rat, as of Feb 23rd.  I guess each Chinese year is assigned an animal representative.  Legend has it that an emperor once invited birds, reptiles and rodents to appear before him.  The order in which they approached determined their placement in the recurring cycle of years.  The rat came up first, and the pig (2007’s symbol) came last.  Rat years are supposed to bring prosperity and a strong economy, while children born during the year exhibit courage, leadership and curiosity.  We think its a fun legend especially since this year is starting out strong for us and our new Dental R.A.T. is here! 

Our new wireless unit is here and we are finally caught up on our backorders!  Unfortunately it took longer than we expected and we appologize for that.  But, it is better than planned!  We have an adjustable mouse speed and audio for those that want to hear the numbers as they are entered.  The audio comes right out of the computer or if a headset is plugged into the computer speakers.   And right now there are two colors, the lilac or black.  We are planning to make more colored covers to match the offices.  The top cover peels back and can be replaced:)  Its such a fun little unit:) 

We have been busy traveling to all the trade shows this winter- WOW!!  We’ve been to Boston, Chicago, Utah and Idaho and we are heading to Georgia for the Hinman.  It’s been so fun with all the buzz about our new wireless Dental R.A.T. 2.0!  It should be a fun Year of the Rat:)